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Love, Mania, Transfiguration
VICTORIA KINGHAM on the St Leonards Concerts Weekender Once more, it has to be said that down here in a small area of St Leonards and Hastings we are privileged…
Painting Hastings in Oils
VICTORIA KINGHAM on Bill Greenhead’s new paintings at The Stables The genial Bill Greenhead is one of those comparatively rare and happy people whose talent is also their livelihood. He…
DeFries Leaps In
VICTORIA KINGHAM As jazz musicians get older, it is perhaps understandable that they might settle into a comfortable groove, doing what they are confident in, playing through familiar changes in…
Writing about Writing
VICTORIA KINGHAM The Palace Workspace is a well-considered refurbishment of an ex-department store in Robertson Street. It’s five floors of glorious open space, warm, redecorated and lined with nicely-selected paintings…
Upcoming: Two Unmissable Concerts
VICTORIA KINGHAM In 2024, St Leonards Concerts once again take an innovative approach. The eclecticism of what they present has always been in evidence – what is maybe less apparent…
It’s About That Time…
VICTORIA KINGHAM on Darius Brubeck at Jazz Hastings Another packed night at the best jazz club this side of London. Chairs are brought in from everywhere, jazz club organisers meet…
Erik, Olav, and Max Show the Way Forward
VICTORIA KINGHAM meditates on the Lodestar Trio at Christ Church St Leonards James Champion Photography The Lodestar – guiding light, inspiration, Pole Star. The word is from Middle English. Middle…
The Paul Gunn Ensemble at Kino-Teatr
VICTORIA KINGHAM On the theme of new, once impossible, collaborative opportunities, the Kino presented once again, on a cold Thursday evening, a high-quality but entirely unclassifiable musical ; Paul Gunn…
Elegance, Modernism, Romance – Ulucan and Roberts at a Kino-Teatr Coffee Concert
VICTORIA KINGHAM The late-morning stage at St Leonards Kino-Teatr looks plain and elegant, a vase of flowers placed on a small table to the right, a grand piano, a music…
Surprise Recital at Friends’ Celebration
VICTORIA KINGHAM Fairlight Hall recently hosted a party to acknowledge the support of friends and patrons of Hastings International Piano Competition. The competition, launched just thirty years ago, has evolved…
From the Heart of Beethoven
VICTORIA KINGHAM hears Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis at St John’s Church, St Leonards Peter MouldHastings Philharmonic Choir with conductor Marcio da Silva Once again, an excellent performance by Hastings Philharmonic Choir…
Cold Night, Warm Sax
VICTORIA KINGHAM at Barnaby’s on a new jazz night Geoff Simkins and Liam Noble Storm-tossed nights in Hastings aren’t the best portent for an evening out. After a flood, on…
Community Uplift
VICTORIA KINGHAM muses on a growing choral phenomenon emanating from Bexhill. Lineker Photography In a recent issue we printed a list of local choirs who were to take part in…
Intersections: PhotoHastingsat St Andrew’s Mews
VICTORIA KINGHAM This small but perfectly-formed exhibition, Here, Not There, in a positively unrestored house on the first floor of St Andrew’s Mews did much to promote the Mews (as…
The Dance of People and the Natural World, The Fourth Wall, Ink
VICTORIA KINGHAM takes in three new exhibitions at Hastings Contemporary Nengi Omuku: Repose Nengi Omuku is an engaging character and there is great warmth and vibrancy about her works now…
Sun Swells
VICTORIA KINGHAM is awed by the talents of Corrie Dick and his ensemble at this month’s Jazz Hastings gig. There’s always an element of the unexpected in the music of…
The Ascension of Josephine Davies
VICTORIA KINGHAM meets Josephine Davies, saxophonist, bandleader, orchestrator, composer, psychotherapist, mountaineer, and anything else that takes her fancy. Monika Jakubowska Photography Josephine Davies has released two albums, called Satori and…
Beethoven and Brahms! The Crocodile and the Mouse!
VICTORIA KINGHAM at another extraordinary concert from St. Leonards Music Charles Davies PhotographyMax Baillie and Guests If you think you don’t like classical music, if you think it’s boring, difficult,…
The pop-up Front Room
VICTORIA KINGHAM attends a Hastings Book Festival ‘pop-up’ event at Sugarpie Honeybun’s on London Road, St. Leonards, on Friday 11 August Thomas TruscottMichael McMillan with Tola Dabiri at Hastings Book…
Hidden Beach? You could hear it for miles!
VICTORIA KINGHAM soaks up sun and sound on a Saturday afternoon I stand in the middle of a DJ competition – Nick Hosier grooves to his decks, and Hastings Dub…
The Multi-Dimensional Joe Stilgoe
RyeJazz JOE STILGOE, composer, singer, pianist, educator, all-round entertainer, takes time out of a hectic schedule to talk to VICTORIA KINGHAM about the upcoming Rye Jazz and Blues Festival, old…
Diffident yet defiant – the individualism of Mike Farris
VICTORIA KINGHAM in conversation with the blues/rock/gospel singer about his music, his life, and his spiritual ; MIKE FARRIS made his first album as a vocalist with The Screamin’ Cheetah…
Fusion – Sounds, Cultures, Worlds
Deepak Ram defies limits at Kino-Teatr and Jazz Hastings VICTORIA KINGHAM Deepak Ram One of the earliest highlights of my auditory education was a 1966 album called Indo-Jazz Suite, an…
Muzak WhileYou Work
In the last issue we carried an article decrying background music, arguing that it was an auditory oddity, an insult to the composer and players who created it. Here KENT…
Play On! Give Me Excess of it
VICTORIA KINGHAM begins an occasional series of musings on the power and effects of musical creation. Recently I heard Dame Sheila Hancock talking about music on Stephen Mangan’s radio programme…
Structure, Swing, and Spirit at Jazz Hastings
VICTORIA KINGHAM enjoys the expert accomplishments of Nikki Yeoh’s Infinitum Nick White Photographer However you want to classify or define jazz, an important feature of the genre is its endless…
Little Richard is Everything at the Kino
VICTORIA KINGHAM In the words of musicologist Fredara Hadley: “Black music is the wellspring of American popular music, but at the same time there are industries and societies that often…
The Town that Keeps on Playing and Singing
VICTORIA KINGHAM delights in the summer programme at Holy Trinity Church in central Hastings. Marc AldridgeHannah Shilvock Lunchtime concerts are always a good idea, especially if they are free. They…
No Comparison
In early May, two leading singers performed locally on the same evening – Katie Melua at the De La Warr Pavilion, and British jazz diva Norma Winstone at the EHSAA.…
Baroque and Roll
VICTORIA KINGHAM discovers the geniality of the Hastings Maestro. Watching Cate Blanchett in the film Tár recently and subsequently reading a work which is said to inspire it, The Maestro…
Pathos, Bathos, Love, and Subversion
VICTORIA KINGHAM reflects on Cabaret Vibe of 20th Century at Kino-Theatre St Leonards A handful of people were privileged, on a recent wet Sunday afternoon, to watch a cabaret performance…
An Unassuming Prodigy
Again, musical excellence takes varied, and often unexpected, forms, genres, and performance levels, and Hastings seems to have more than its share. We go on here to hail yet another…
Haydn and Mozart at Christ Church
VICTORIA KINGHAM returns to Christ Church in St Leonards to appreciate the Philharmonic Choir in full voice. Assiduous followers of this newspaper will have noticed, back in cold February, these…
The Soul of Kinsella
Amanda Brooks and Victoria Kingham In the thoroughly musical, thoroughly joyful town of Hastings we present here the first of an occasional series featuring the lives and ambitions of just…
Uchida at Fairlight
VICTORIA KINGHAM Once in a century there comes along a composer of towering genius. Once in a century too, there comes along a virtuoso exponent of that composer. It was…
Sarah Jane Morris Sings the Beatles
VICTORIA KINGHAM The Kino-Teâtr is the ultimate in shabby-chic, a real Hastings gem with its beautiful curved ceiling, unpainted, boldly showing the plasterwork; and lovely old velvet cinema seats that…
Xhosa Cole at the EHSAA
VICTORIA KINGHAM Traditionally in a review, one is assumed to make rational judgements, to not throw out superlatives like genius, innovator, unique, powerful, beautiful, as to overuse these kinds of…
Jamming in the Summer Sun
VICTORIA KINGHAM interviews the indefatigable Max Baillie, violinist, viola player, virtuoso, musical powerhouse, Founder of St Leonards Concerts and leader of The Fritz Brothers and other ensembles, in the first…
The Hastings Philharmonic Choir, Haydn, and the Joy of Song
VICTORIA KINGHAM meets the Hastings Philharmonic Choir. The interior of Christ Church St Leonards has a subdued beauty, borne perhaps of its relatively inornate interior. Much of the stained glass…
Classical Music Special: Les Frères Fritz
VICTORIA KINGHAM visits St Leonard’s Crown House to review The Fritz Brothers – a Parisian inspired jazz/classical ensemble featuring director, arranger, and violinist Max Baillie, Ewan Bleach – clarinet and…